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Malnutrition

4/24/2025

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In the 1960s Batman and Robin were on American TVs solving crime, while real famous people were on TV Talk Shows predicting the world will not have enough food to feed the masses by the 1990s. A prediction that did not come true, thank God, because the earlier work of William Godwin and Marquis de Condorcet was correct, and Thomas Robert Malthus' theory, was incorrect.

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However today, while less people die of starvation, our world has almost 9 million people die each year of malnutrition related diseases. Yet, we have enough food in this world to feed all 8.2 billion humans. The project called Zero Hunger by the year 2030 has some stating that the project will need additional time based on current statistics of progress. One estimate claims 100 more years are needed to accomplish that goal. I myself, do not have all the data to know what is true or not true with those estimates and/or predictions.

What has gone wrong, and why are we falling short of preventing anyone from going hungry. As I have written many times before in previous Going True Green blogs about the progress towards our answer for the world's energy needs, the answer to the question - What has gone wrong? - is the same: GREED.

Hydrogen fuel cells that work on demand to make world wide free energy from free rainwater, and free sunlight, will eliminate all monthly bills. Therefore, we do not see this solution, because there's no money to be made. All energy sources we have today are a transition to the hydrogen fuel cell answer. The same holds true for supplying food to those in need. The solution will be a transition until we're able to establish the neighborhoods in need to support themselves with growing crops and having a sufficient food supply.

So what's the solution for malnutrition in this world? We have enough food, we have the technology to produce more food, delicious food, or not so delicious. Healthy food or not so healthy food. Nevertheless, the solution has to be a transition toward the ability for many of us to be contributing in a small way or larger way to the food supply. As for myself, I do what I can with the little property I have. However, what I do, can also be done on the rooftop of an apartment building or in a vacant lot. Even growing something by windowsills will help.

As for the malnutrition problem our world suffers, we need to put greed aside and actions such as the following need to take place; but first let us look at what we have so that we may evaluate the complete picture for a solution.
  • Freeze dried food was a technology needed by NASA. 
  • Restaurants around the world throw away leftover food that some calculate can feed everyone who is hungry, every day, several times over.
  • Companies today make computers and cell phones that can print out labels in multiple languages.
  • Areas of Asia and Africa, where malnutrition is at the worst levels, are at remote parts of the world.
  • We have entities, such as the United States post office, making deliveries with half filled trucks and planes to major distribution centers.
  • We have technology used by the military to AirDrop, just about anything, on a landing site the size of a helicopter’s landing pad.

Therefore, we need an organized initiative between all the countries of the world so that the following talents can be implemented:

NASA or a private corporation needs to develop a small, fast, and efficient piece of equipment that can be utilized by any restaurant to freeze dry unused food.

Well established restaurants will partake in a program that allows for weekly pick up of their freeze dried leftover food that is clearly labeled with specific data and in all languages spoken along all routes.

Cell phone and computer companies can produce a small and efficient system that can be maintained at any restaurant to print out labels with all significant data relating to the freeze dried food in multiple languages.

Here in the United States, the United States post office, or any private company will facilitate the weekly pick ups of the freeze dried food so that they can be processed through distribution centers for delivery to neighborhoods in need.

For remote area deliveries, distribution will go to appropriate military bases where they will contribute by combining training missions with freeze dried food airdrops for all remote areas.

The last action will combine students from around the world that are studying in the fields such as agriculture, land management, engineering, composting, water management, weather, energy, insect control, storage, environmental, distribution, etc. So that they can work as a team for neighborhoods ready to establish their own sustainable means to grow, produce, and supply food. This is most necessary because people do not want to eat freeze dried food forever.

"Golly-gee Batman, you think of everything!"
"Yes Robin, now the only thing left to do, is get greed out of the way."

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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BLAME OUR OLD FOLKS, THEN GIVE THANKS

11/13/2023

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With Thanksgiving soon to arrive, we all need to spend some time being thankful for the complete picture, all the information, aka the truth, so we can keep things real. Sadly today, that complete picture and truth is not presented nor spoken much. Our young adults today are misled to the point where they just automatically blame someone else, especially when they talk about our environment on just one issue and fail to realize the multitude of issues. Few realize how everything is connected and how everything we do has an impact on our environment.
 
Over the years I have been pulled into conversations where the above is so apparent and relative. This is one reason why I try to maintain my Going True Green blogs with various central themes and have them connect one way or another. I also have kept notes and thoughts, so now with the above situation stated, I will combine different examples and stories into one conglomerate blog to make my point. I will use a visit with my Aunt, who represents our old folks very stalwartly. She is 102 with a walker, but she still has all her faculties.
 
          We were sitting together and I was getting ready to leave after having some time sharing stories and memories. There were two Pignoli cookies left over from the five I brought to share with my aunt. (Yes, these are expensive cookies, thus only five.) Nevertheless, my aunt saw one of the young ladies that works at her assisted living and asked her for a small plastic bag to put the two cookies in. She wanted to take them up to her room. I had already recycled the cardboard box the cookies came in and the remaining two were on a small cardboard circle that acted like a tray.
 
        After a few minutes, the young lady came back with a small brown paper lunch bag and said, “I brought you a paper bag instead of a plastic bag.”
 
         “Oh, I prefer a paper bag. Thank you,” my aunt replied.
 
      “Well I wished you preferred paper bags when you were younger, perhaps then my generation wouldn’t have environment problems that will destroy the world in ten years,” the employee snapped back.
 
        “Wow,” I said and immediately saw my aunt put her hand up toward me in a jester that she didn’t need my help.
 
         “Can you imagine?” My aunt said softly and then as if someone handed her a microphone, she started her verbal dissertation. “When I was young we only used paper bags. There were no plastic bags at all and we reused all our paper over and over. We made and protected our school text books with left-over paper bags from the grocery store. We lined our kitchen garbage pail with them, we made hats to play with and made signs on the brown paper for selling lemonade at the wooden stand our fathers made for us. We even reused newspaper to wrapped fish in at the fish market and protect things being mailed. We didn’t have or use your plastic bubble wrap.
 
        “When I was young, we all had milk delivered to us every few mornings in glass bottles. Bottles that were returned, washed, and reused over and over. We really recycled all glass bottles, because they all went back to be washed and refilled. Soda, beer and…
 
          “And we never purchase water in plastic bottles! We were blessed with clean water coming out of a fountain or the faucet in our kitchen for a fraction of the cost. Much better than what my grandmother did every day when she carried several heavy clay pots to the town well in order to fill them with that day’s water supply for her family.
 
       “I walked everywhere or took the trolley and then a bus after that replaced the trolley. We didn’t have a car. And when we did, we still walked to anywhere within five miles. Stairs, oh yes, stairs. No such thing as escalators in every building. Do not think… I mean, I am thankful for elevators now, because with my walker I can no longer take stairs.”
 
        “But you took stairs until you needed that walker at 98 years old!” I quickly injected. “Tell her how you helped take care of the whole family as the oldest after your father died while he helped with the World War Two effort state side.”
 
       “Oh yes, Pop. Pop was killed loading a supply ship bound to Europe for our troops. They said it was an accident. Mom needed my help with my four younger brothers. Two already in the military, the army and Airforce. One more to join the Navy when he turned 18 within two years. Thank God all my brothers came home, but many other boys we knew… I never married, so I helped mom and the family all I could.”
 
         “My aunt is being modest. She was a professional woman, despite not having any chance to go to high school. She earned the money that helped to support the family. My grandmother didn’t have a paying job…” I stopped talking when my aunt looked at me and laughed a little.
 
        “There was no such thing as a professional woman back then.”
 
        “True,” I replied.
 
       “A man would have your job right here and now, back in those years." My aunt said to the young lady. "You would be getting married or as in my case helping the war effort.” My aunt turned in her seat, and I now knew she was going to let everything fly.
 
       “As far as my generation, causing your generation’s problems…  Well, I am thankful for elevators, because with my walker I can no longer take stairs. I took stairs, I washed cloth diapers to be reused over and over. No plastic throw-away diapers. The sun dried our clothes on a clothes line, no electrical powered drying machine.”
 
       “That is real solar energy,” I injected.
 
       “William, let me speak. Don’t interrupt… I took the stairs all the time, but I am thankful for elevators, because with my walker I can no longer take stairs. Look at all these Television sets here. We had one Television for the whole family and that was only after I purchased, with my money, RCA’s first entertainment center with color TV, stereo, record player, and radio in 1960. If you wanted to see a big screen feature, we went to the movie theaters that had air conditioned environments. We didn’t have our own air conditioner in every room throughout the apartment. We used no electricity when mixing food like flour or eggs, we mixed with our hand powered kitchen tools. We sharpened pencils by hand, we would wind-up our alarm clocks, we opened food cans with a can opener by hand, we swept the floors and carpets by hand, we planted gardens anywhere we could, we raked up leaves and composted them instead of stuffing them into plastic bags, we added up numbers on paper, not on a computer, we washed dishes by hand, we read books by the window on a Sunday afternoon, we went around the house shutting lights off and opening curtains, we washed every night with the bowl by the sink and took a bath twice or three times a week, we donated what we no longer needed to the church, we knew the difference between what we needed and what we wanted, we took lunch with us to work and school in a reusable metal lunch box, never used a zip-lock plastic bag, we ate together, we prayed together and we had time, valuable time, together. I’m 102, those valuable times are just memories for me now. I am blessed to have them.”
  
         Before walking away, the young girl said with a tear in her eye, “I am sorry. I didn’t know.”
 
As for me, I have little patience for elitist people who want to scare our kids with lies through the process of omission. Sending kids around the world to scream in fear instead of realizing all that has been done to help make a difference. Yes, I am acutely aware about how generations before polluted our waterways and air, but I am also aware of what each generation has done to fix environmental damage and problems. Throughout my generation I witnessed massive improvements and solutions implemented. Along with current efforts, we are doing seriously better than the way pollution was in the 1950s and 60s. Too many of today’s generation fail to realize all that has changed and what has been fixed. Just believing topics like electric cars are the solution, when they are just a transition at best, is proof that just googling knowledge - Does Not Work. Just believing what is spoken and not realizing the damage to people and our environment with the use of electric car fleets everywhere. Not knowing the facts behind Hydrogen Fuel Cells, so we do not get suckered into monthly bills when the solution can be Free to the world. Instead of being happy about facts and news that are positive, they blame others and refuse to realize that they didn’t do their homework and were duped.
 
If you have not read the following as of yet, then this is homework for reading this Thanksgiving:


https://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/want-not-waste-not

https://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/treat-but-there-is-a-trick

https://www.goingtruegreen.com/gtg-blog/solution-for-flints-water​


To my aunt, I say thank you! Thank you for all you didn’t do to hurt the environment and thank you for being part of my equation that had me go out around the world always learning, but also to teach, educate, and make a difference.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone and peace to all as we know the real truths.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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My Presentation Video

9/21/2023

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My presentation, World's Food Supply: Predictions vs Production Solutions with Probable Effects on the Poor, went very well. This was the 5th Euro Global Conference on Food Science And Technology. For 2023 the 3 day conference was held in Valencia, Spain, and scientists came together from around the world. I established new contacts with scholars from countries in Africa, South and North America, Asia, an Europe. I attended several presentations over the 3 day conference and was able to communicate with many people working hard to make a difference.

After receiving emails asking for copies of my presentation, I decided to post the recorded video on this blog in its entirety for a month. Afterwards, the first video will only be posted and the full version will be available in
​Going True Green's Members section. - Thank you.

INTRODUCTION, Part One of Four
PART Two, Three, and Four available with GTG Membership
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Clear the Air with House Plants

1/30/2023

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I have purchased many different types of air filters since the 1980s. I stopped buying them just after the turn into this century. Perhaps I was just buying a "bill of goods" just like Bottled Water is today, but some of the HEPA filters did help with my Hay-fever days. Then there was the cost to operate them... the electric bill, batteries, replacement filters. When winter enters the equation, we have the heat on and air circulation is cut dramatically due to closed doors and windows. Unlike AC units in the summertime that have filters, heating systems raise dust and do not filter. Yet, there is always another way, a better way.

About twenty plus years ago, at least three investigators with NASA and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America found that specific house plants were very good at expunging elements expelled by items such as: new rugs, building materials, furnishings, cleaning agents, paints, varnishes, cigarettes, fabrics, preserved foods and other airborne pollutants.


Everyday items found in every home and office contribute to indoor air contamination. So to improve air quality and add oxygen into your living and working spaces, adding certain types of plants will make a difference for the better.

We already know that plants take in carbon dioxide and substances from the surrounding air through openings in each leaf. These elements are pollutants to us, but are broken down by plants to become food through translocation to the roots of the plant. Below is a list of plants that work the best for cleaning indoor air. They are in alphabetical order:
Aloe Vera 
Known For:     Treatment for cuts, scraps and minor burns
Accomplish:    Removes benzene and formaldehyde
Care:               Sun, well drainage and don’t over water


Areca Palm: 
Known For:     Seven foot height, grow 7 inches per year
Accomplish:    Absorbs formaldehyde, toluene, and xylene
Care:              Indirect Sunlight, water and fertilizer


Bamboo Palm: 
Known For:     Loves the tropical amount of sunlight
Accomplish:    Removes trichloroethylene toxins
Care:               Water only when the soil is dry and never overwater

Boston Ferns: 
Known For:     Needs space to spread and grow its fronds
Accomplish:    Removes formaldehyde and improves oxygen levels
Care:               Water frequently, mist twice per week and add peat moss


Gerber Daisies: 
Known For:     A variety of bright colors and broad green leaves
Accomplish:    Absorbs benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene
Care:              Direct sunlight and moist soil


Peace Lilies: 
​Known For:     Inability to tolerate cold, love warm and humid climates
Accomplish:    Absorbs benzene and trichloroethylene
Care:              Direct sunlight and moist soil that drains well


Snake Plant 
Known For:     Available in yellow, dark and light greens
Accomplish:    Removes formaldehyde, benzene, toluene, xylene, and trichloroethylene
Care:              Indirect sunlight and keep the soil dry

There are a few more plants that can help, nevertheless, using house plants in your home or office saves money while being Eco-friendly with cleaning out indoor air toxins.

Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
Environmental Scientist
International Sustainability and Energy Consultant
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Earth Breeze Product Review

10/21/2022

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My cousin Emily told me about Earth Breeze's laundry detergent sheets. These solidified soapy sheets Immediately provide benefits to eliminate large plastic containers from our environment. This offers savings on the issues with raw materials, manufacturing and disposal of the large plastic laundry detergent containers.

After using and testing this new product for three months, I am happy to report that my clothes are just as clean. I no longer have to clean up liquid laundry detergent from
the occasional spill. They work fine in my energy and water efficient front load washing machine and you can enlarge the above images to read more about the details.

​However, these solidified soapy sheets are made in China. We must consider components like price that will always be affected by the supply chain size. Distance between manufacturing and consumer is considered sustainable by most scientists when within 200 to 250 miles. I myself always ask if the carbon emissions created by shipping across half the planet outweigh the carbon emissions saved. Therefore, when consumer choices must be made in the realm of sustainability, all factors must be evaluated. I will be seeking out another manufacturer who makes the same product but with a far shorter Supply Chain, because everything will be made here in the United States of America.


Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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Sneezing Outside The Box

10/7/2022

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We all use them...
Tissues are very useful and because everyone uses tissues one time or many times in their lives, perhaps we should use some good old American ingenuity to improvise the way they are sold.

The image shown is a tissue box I made to cover the cardboard tissue box purchased in a store. I used left over pieces of wood from other projects and made a matching waste pail. Now while these actions avoided the purchase of new wood and a tissue box cover and pail made of plastic, the key word is plastic, I also was trapped in a whirlpool of thought involving redundancy.

The very wooden cover I made in the shape of a box, was covering a cardboard box. A cardboard box that may get recycled, tossed into the garbage or very rarely today, used to build a house for toys by turning the box inside out and drawing windows and doors upon the surface. When I was a kid, I did that all the time. Cereal boxes became castles, cookie boxes became Fire Departments for Matchbox cars and Refrigerator boxes became space ships. Sadly, are those days of creativity over?

Nevertheless, my wooden box and plastic box covers create redundancy. We do not need two boxes, so hopefully the manufacturing companies of tissues in boxes can take this suggestion to the bank. They can save production money while less cardboard is used or wasted. A lower manufacturing cost should mean lower prices for us the consumer! Additionally, all the cardboard being saved will help our environment.

The solution is easy... sell the tissues in a paper, not plastic, a paper bag as a refill in the boxes we already have at home. Perhaps even do an Introductory Offer by selling different sized decorative boxes for the bag of refill tissues. My parents had a nice metal tissue box cover from when they were married. That decorative metal tissue box cover lasted almost 50 years before the edges started to rust. When I saw the rust, I painted the box with a new color.

Tissues sold as refills and packaged in paper instead of cardboard will be more sustainable across-the-board. Reason being, paper gets recycled more than cardboard.


Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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Sustainable Shoes Kids Can't Outgrow!

4/12/2022

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Kids wear out and outgrow shoes all the time. This reality applies pressure on raw materials, waste management, our budgets, and medical support for kids that contract parasites or other diseases when walking barefoot to school or work.  The world has multitudes of children that don't have shoes to wear because of availability and cost.

Enter Mr. Kenton Lee, who is an entrepreneur with the invention of a shoe that grows! When working at an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya, Lee came up with the idea of a leather sandal that could expand five sizes. Thus allowing the shoes to last years for a kid and save money, materials, and waste.

However, having a brilliant and more sustainable idea is not enough. I know first hand with my own trademarks and patented invention, that this is always the case. Lee even tried to give the idea away for free to a shoe company, but there seems to be an inherited inhibitor in all corporations that believe they must put profits ahead of people.

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​Notwithstanding, Lee started his own nonprofit company, "Because International" to get his prototype shoe out there. Today the Shoe That Grows is in 100 countries and is getting worldwide admiration. Lee was quoted explaining how the shoe works, “Basically, the kids can adjust the shoe on the top with Velcro straps and an adjustable toe piece. Then, the bottom of the shoe unfolds as the foot naturally grows.”

Visit Because International with the Link above. If you are blessed with a child, you may want a pair for your kid.

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This EASTER, read a Historical Novel that presents data based probabilities proving the truth.
This Easter Read a Historical Novel With 5 Stars!
​Upper Room, The Way: 33AD to 57AD


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Beautifully Crafted Retelling of a Timeless Story
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This book was a real eye opener and a must read for anyone interested in the Shroud of Turin. It is a beautifully crafted narrative of the events surrounding the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the effects of this miracle upon His followers and foes alike. Meticulously researched, this story brings together the Gospel accounts in the Bible and apocryphal works, weaving a compelling tale of the origins of what blossomed into Christianity as we know it today. The traditional cast is all here, The Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, the Apostles, even Pontius Pilate, but each is brought to life in new and surprising ways that will challenge readers to rethink much of what they have previously assumed about them. Beyond that, this novel is moving, creative and riveting all at the same time. A real gem!
​Both Digital and Hardcopy available at Amazon.
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PlayBack Program For Toys

1/18/2022

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After Christmas and the holidays, many gifts have been exchanged, especially toys.  From when I was young, I still have some board games and toys, such as Dark Tower and G. I. Joe. The remaining toys that I had, I gave to others to enjoy and play. I did this via family, friends, church and charities. However, the bulk of most toys in this world still end up in landfills.

One positive action to stop the flow of toys to landfill came about almost one year ago when Mattel announced a new program called PlayBack. By 2030 the company wants to achieve 100% recycled, recyclable or bio-based plastic materials for all their toys and packages.

So to start, they are operating a program that will take back Barbie, Matchbox and Mega toys for recycling. This way, materials can be used again in making new toys, for another generation of kids.

Grown up kids and parents who know that a toy has been played with and is now ready to be passed on to another child to love, can do so directly themselves as I did in the past, or visit Mattel's PlayBack program. (Link provided)
All you have to do is fill out the form, pack up the toys and Mattel pays for the shipping fees back to them.


​Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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Sustainable Living Art by Saving Fabric

12/18/2021

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We all have a talent, gift and/or kind soul. Sad and true that some people never realize this fact and perhaps stay as a Ebeneezer Scrooge for life. Additionally, we all cannot do everything to help save the world. Whatever our forte may be, that is what we can concentrate on to make a difference.

Allow me to share with you an extraordinary attainment by a very modest woman named Bonnie B. Barbera who is a quilter. She makes bed quilts and everyday items from leftover pieces of material. These same leftover tiny pieces of fabric also become her palette for the creation of her Art Quilts. From “scraps” of material, that you and I would throw away, Bonnie creates art masterpieces.

These beautiful art quilts start with saving and maintaining a fabric stash. I saw multiple colors stored in bins, all from scraps of material. I was impressed. When I asked Bonnie about the task to collect and sort, Bonnie’s answer was a modest one.

“A fabric ‘stash’ is a practice that is certainly common for many, many, quilters. Patchwork quilts have been made for hundreds of years out of saved scraps. As you can see, I store each color range in separate bins.” 

Sustainable Living circled in my head as I viewed this amazing artist’s studio where she worked. I then asked Bonnie about the art quilts she was currently working on and she explained by saying, “The art quilts that I’ve done incorporate fabric collage, raw edge appliqué and free-motion quilting. I use bits and scraps of cotton, denim, silk and other fabric blends that I have saved from all of my more utilitarian quilt projects over the last 9 years. I try very hard not to purchase any new fabrics (with the exception of small amounts of white muslin when I absolutely need pure white). I always try very hard to make what I have on hand work. If I can't find the color I need in my stash, I'll take two or more scraps that once combined, will produce the color effect that I seek.”

The following three images show the process of making an art quilt and Bonnie describes the process as follows:

“A quilt has thee layers - Top, Batting and Bottom. The part that is shown pinned together is the top layer. After I pin the image, I sew down all of the tiny pieces on the sewing machine to secure them. That is not the only time I sew the image. I then ‘sandwich’ the top with two layers of batting beneath that, and a backing layer of cotton for the bottom layer. Once that sandwich is pinned securely, I then machine-quilt through all of the layers in a way that enhances the depth of the piece and provides texture where I want it. Finally the quilt edges are bound.”
Bonnie is making quilts, art work and a difference with her talent that holds a sustainable element. Would it not be wonderful, if Christmas morning, we all found our sustainable talent under the tree?

For more of Bonnie’s work, she can be reached at her Instagram Link:
https://www.Instagram.com/bonnie.b.Barbera/
Merry Christmas everyone!
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Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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The Rain Collection

7/28/2021

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Our world's supply of clean drinkable water is not increasing, yet the number of humans living on our planet is growing. (Some have estimated that our supply of clean drinkable water is less than 1% of all the water on Earth.)
 
I have recently heard some very well educated and well-to-do people express the view of economist Thomas Malthus who argued that the continued increases in the world's population would overtake the development of sufficient crops and drinkable water, thus diminishing our ability to sustain ourselves. Mr. Malthus lived 1766 to 1834 and as for the people of today expressing this argument, I disagree 100%. Mr. Malthus was wrong with his doomsday outlook then and those claiming the same today are also wrong.

Are these people stating this chilling statement today suggesting that the recommendation made by Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, should be implemented?


As a reminder, Scrooge is visited by two benefactors wishing to collect provision for the destitute at Christmas time. Scrooge angrily replies that prisons and workhouses are the only institutions he is willing to support. One of the benefactors states that many can’t go there; and many would rather die. Scrooge then takes the Malthusian view to another level by claiming that the poor and ill are surplus to the needs of society and if they would rather die, they’d better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Later in the novel A Christmas Carol, Scrooge's own words are used against him by asking if he will get to decide who lives or dies? No human has that right over another human.

Additionally, the nay sayers harboring this pessimistic prediction are wrong because they omit the ingenuity of free men and women. They are wrong because they have no faith in humankind coming together as one team to find another way, like we have done time after time. Additionally, they are fearful of this doomsday outcome, because in my opinion, they are most likely Godless.

Having a collection, a Rain Collection, is the most valued collection we can have. Water Is Our Most Precious Commodity and by clicking on those words highlighting the title of our on-line Water class for all GTG members, more info on our membership page will open. So what do I see that makes me believe in a positive outcome with our drinking water supply?

For years I have been collecting rainwater off my roof to reduce my water use outside. People all over the world are using systems to collect rain water that are centuries old. The Island of Bermuda probably leads the world in collecting rain water off rooftops and not just for outside use, but also for drinking.

I have rain barrels, but more and more people are setting up cistern systems for an alternative supply of water. This reduces the use of groundwater, reduces storm water run off that will reduce litter entering our sewers that go directly to our waterways and reduces our water bills. When collected off a slate roof, the collected rain water can be used to wash off outdoor items, such as chairs or a car. When rain water is filtered and distilled properly from a well maintained slate roof and cistern system that has regular tests checking for bacteria, then washing clothes, showering, and drinking becomes possible. 


With additional water supplies, gardens abound creating an increase in food access. Neighborhood carbon footprints are reduced as all people come together to share, promote, educate in the areas of health, nutrition and growing crops. Rain basins, rainwater capture and new water infrastructures utilizing new techniques or old, help our environment. Homeowners can save thousands of gallons of water each year. I have 4 barrels holding a total of 225 gallons of water and they are filled at least 7 times per year. That is approximately 1,575 gallons of water saved per year, just by me. So yes, Mr. Malthusian, Mr. Scrooge and some powerful people of today, your predictions have been and will still be proven wrong just as long as humankind has faith and is free.

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Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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